the Kerry Dance

O the days of the Kerry dancin',
O the ring of the pipers tune!
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone alas! Like our youth too soon:
When the boys began to gather
In the glen of a summers night
And the Kerry pipers' tunin'
Made you long with wild delight
O to think of it
O to dream of it
Fills my heart with tears!

CHORUS
O the days of the Kerry dancin'
O the ring of the pipers tune
O for one of those hours of gladness
Gone alas like our youth too soon!

Time goes on, and the happy years
Are dead, and one by one
The merry hearts have fled
Silent now is the wild and lonely glen
Where the bright glad laugh
Will echo ne'er again
Only dreamin' of days gone by
Fills my heart with tears

Lovin' voices of a dead companion
Stealin' out of the past once more
And the sound of the dear old music
Soft and sweet as in day of yore;
When the boys began to gather
In the glen of a summers night
And the Kerry pipers tunin made
You long with wild delight

CHORUS

my lament to my late brother Raymond (a student of Henry Scheizer, Mr. Charlie Pyle, and Mr. Boomer) with whom I did once share equipment that he coordinated and designed despite impossible times; equipment he intended to be used even now...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Irish Folk Music
• Traditional Irish Music
• Saint Patrick's Day Music
• Celtic Music
• James Lyman Molloy (1837-1909)

[maxgross]

This is truly awful! Is it playing backwards?

[pjsdoggy]

I like,cheers for posting!